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Clark Pinnock was a leading evangelical theologian who died in 2010. I followed his career, learned from him through his books and articles, and finally got to know him personally in the 1990s. When I first read him he was a strong inerrantist and Calvinist. But he was a good writer and apologist for the Christian faith.
Based on my extensive and deep involvement with the American Evangelical Movement (AEM) over fifty years, I will dare to say that it was a closed club. At least there were (and still are) people who want to make it a bounded set, as opposed to a centered set, and serve as its gatekeepers. And they were and are not always fair in carrying that out. In fact, at times, with regard to certain individuals, I know that they violated basic ethical rules. Some of them lied to keep certain individuals out of the club.
I almost joined the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) but I’m glad I didn’t. The year was 1985 and I was beginning my new teaching position in
Everyone in America has heard of James Talarico by now. He is the relatively young, openly Christian, seminary-educated, Texas legislator running for the US Senate as a Democrat. He wears his Christian faith on his sleeve, so to speak, no hiding it or keeping it quiet.
What is “deconstruction,” anyway? Well, I've been reading a lot about that and it turns out it's not at all what I had been told.
In 1984 I interviewed for a position teaching theology at Bethel College and Seminary (now Bethel University) in St. Paul, Minnesota. I was shown the denomination's and institution's statement of faith (doctrinal statement) and asked if I could sign it. It included belief that the Bible is without error in the original autographs. I balked a bit at that and asked what that means. I was shown an essay written by John Piper when he interviewed to teach at Bethel. (He was hired to teach New Testament.) The essay describes Piper's own belief about the subject. Told that his view was compatible with that of the denomination (then called the Baptist General Conference), I was able to sign the statement of faith. The essay is still on John's web site and is for public use when John's authorship is acknowledged. I hereby acknowledge that. But what I want to know is whether John's definition of “inerrancy” is what most conservative evangelicals mean when they talk about the accuracy of scripture as “without error in the original autographs” and insist on the agreement with “biblical inerrancy” for admission to their club. What do you think?
When I interviewed to teach theology at Bethel College and Seminary in Minnesota in 1984 I balked at signing a statement of faith that included that
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-14 Today is Pentecost Sunday. That's our Christian celebration of the birth of the church as recounted in Acts 2.
In 1650 Irish Anglican Bishop James Ussher published a book in which he declared that the world was created in 4004 B.C.
Review of Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture by Kenton L. Sparks (Eerdmans)
